Masterpieces of Hermitage
2008 video, color, 5x26 min
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Director:
Vladimir Ptashchenko
Directed by Vladimir Ptaschenko
Screenplay by Vladimir Ptaschenko
Cameramen – Mikhail Klyuev, Aleksandr Degtyaryov, Nikolay Volkov, Vladimir Ptaschenko
Music by Stanislav Furtovskiy
Assistants of the director Mikhail Vishnyakov, Denis Egorov
Editor – Denis Egorov
Consultant – Natalia Mikova
Computer graphic by Lyudmila Bezyaeva
Sound engineer – Denis Druzhinin
Announcer – Andrey Tenetko
Editor in chief – Zhanna Romanova
Producers Vyacheslav Telnov, Vladimir Ptaschenko
Directed by Vladimir Ptaschenko
Screenplay by Vladimir Ptaschenko
Cameramen – Mikhail Klyuev, Aleksandr Degtyaryov, Nikolay Volkov, Vladimir Ptaschenko
Music by Stanislav Furtovskiy
Assistants of the director Mikhail Vishnyakov, Denis Egorov
Editor – Denis Egorov
Consultant – Natalia Mikova
Computer graphic by Lyudmila Bezyaeva
Sound engineer – Denis Druzhinin
Announcer – Andrey Tenetko
Editor in chief – Zhanna Romanova
Producers Vyacheslav Telnov, Vladimir Ptaschenko
Synopsis
Film I – “Italian Renaissance – belief in harmony and beauty”.
Film II – “Art of Netherlands – opening of the reality”.
Film III – “Great Flemings”
Film IV – “Holland art of XVII century”
Film V – “Art of England”
The State Hermitage Museum (Saint-Petersburg) is one of the biggest museums in the world. There are more than 3 million exhibits in its collections.
The authors of the film try to show to the audience not only the masterpieces but the dialogue between different cultures.
Dynamic editing and 3-D graphic let to understand and convert to modern way the images and symbols of world wide known works of art.
Film I – “Italian Renaissance – belief in harmony and beauty”.
Antic culture has become the example for learning and coping in Italy thus the term “renaissance” appeared. – the renaissance traditions of Antic art.
Collection of the earliest work of Italian Renaissance in Hermitage is not so numerous – works by Niccolo di Pietro Gerini, Fra Beato Angelico, Simone Martini, Filippino Lippi, Lorenzo Costa and some others.
Particular pride of the Hermitage is collection of works by the masters of High Renaissance – two works by Leonardo da Vinci, two works by Raphael and two by Giorgione, eight works by Titian, and sculpture by Mikelangelo.
Film II – “Art of Netherlands – opening of the reality”
Small country that now includes the territories of modern Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg, in XV century was predestined to become the brightest center of European art after Italy. Culture of Netherlands reflected the process of struggle between new burger ideology with feudal order. Painting has become the most interesting and important manifestation of culture of the small country.
Exposition of Art of Netherlands in Hermitage is not big and irregular. But there are paintings of the great masters such as Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo Van Der Goes, Gerard David, Jan Provost, Marinus Van Roimersvale, Jan Mandijn and the others in Hermitage collection.
Film III – “Great Flemings”
Hermitage collection of Flemish art of XVII century has world significance. More than 500 paintings of different genres demonstrate all features of this leading painting school of Europe. New national art – bright, vivid and positive was born in this period of arising of national spirit. Mastership of Peter Paul Rubens became its center.
Hermitage collection also has some portraits of nobility by Ruben’s disciple Anthony van Dyck.
Paintings by Jordaens Jacob is the embodiment of Flemish joy of living.
Still-life by Snyders composed of game, fruits, huge fishes is the apotheoses of Earth bounties.
Art of Fleming of the Golden Age is presented in Hermitage completely.
Film IV – “Holland art of XVII century”
State Hermitage has one of the biggest in the world collection of Holland Art. The very first exhibit were bought by Peter The Great in Holland. Later the works of Holland art that were collected by Katharine The Great, Aleksandr I, Nikolay I, famous Russian traveler and scientist Semenov-Tyan-Shanskiy were also joined to the main collection.
Holland art school gave to the world the row of distinguished masters such as Franz Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Steen, Adriaen van Ostade, Terborch, Pieter Hooch and the others.
Film V – “Art of England”
English collection in Hermitage has unique remarkable examples of paintings, graphics and decorative art that let us to feel the originality of this school. The period of flourishing of XVIII-XIX centuries is presented better than all the others.
In XVII cent. Russia was almost the only one country in Europe that was seriously interested in art of England. Paintings by English artists were hardly known abroad. However the collection by lord Wallpaul that was gained by Katherine the Great also contained the painting of English artists. Those paintings gave the foundation to the future special Hermitage collection.
The most famous English artists such as Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence are presented in Hermitage. Special attention in collection is paid to landscapes. Leading masters of that genre George Morland, William Terner, John Constable determined the development of the landscape paintings in Europe.
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